[313] Film Festival Returns To MTSU In April

FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO MTSU IN APRIL
11th Annual Event Features Week of Student-Filmmaker Screenings

FOR RELEASE: Feb. 14, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Tyler Adkins, 615-898-2551, mtsufilms@yahoo.com

MURFREESBORO—Middle Tennessee State University’s Films Committee will conduct its 11th Annual MTSU Student Film Festival Monday through Friday, April 4-8, in the Keathley University Center Theater.

The festival will have nightly screenings at 7 p.m., showcasing MTSU’s best up-and-coming student filmmakers. The MTSU Student Film Festival has been running since 2000.

“We are glad to continue the tradition of upholding an event where students can put their academic and extracurricular skills to use and showcase their talent,” said Tyler Adkins, chair of the MTSU Films Committee.
“We look forward to the eleventh year of the festival, and hope it will be our best yet.”

Submission packets are available now in the Office of Student Unions and Programming, located in Room 308 of the KUC, or online at www.mtsu.edu/events.

The festival will accept entries only from projects in which a current student holds a substantial role. Submissions for the festival are due on Friday, March 25, with prizes ranging from gift cards to a Nashville Film Festival patron-level pass. Prizes, which are being donated by the Nashville Film Festival, are subject to change; entrants will receive prior notification.

For more information about the film festival, contact Adkins at 615-898-2551 or mtsufilms@yahoo.com or visit www.mtsu.edu/events.


Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. MTSU recently unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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IN BRIEF: Middle Tennessee State University’s Films Committee will conduct its 11th Annual MTSU Student Film Festival Monday through Friday, April 4-8, in the Keathley University Center Theater. The festival will have nightly screenings at 7 p.m., showcasing MTSU’s best up-and-coming student filmmakers. Prizes will be awarded to the top three films at the festival. Submission packets are available online at www.mtsu.edu/events and are due on Friday, March 25. For more information about the film festival, contact Tyler Adkins, film committee chair, at 615-898-2551 or mtsufilms@yahoo.com or visit www.mtsu.edu/events.

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